The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy

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Title: The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
Author: Edward Dyson
Release Date: October 19, 2005 [EBook #16903]
Language: English
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THE GOLD STEALERS
By
Edward DysonCHAPTER I.
THE schoolhouse at Waddy was not in the least like any of the trim State buildings that now decorate every Victorian
township and mark every mining or agricultural centre that can scrape together two or three meagre classes; it was the
result of a purely local enthusiasm, and was erected by public subscription shortly after Mr. Joel Ham, B.A., arrived in the
district and let it be understood that he did not intend to go away again. Having discovered that it was impossible to
make anything else of Mr. Joel Ham, Waddy resolved to make a schoolmaster of him. A meeting was held in the
Drovers' Arms, numerous speeches, all much more eloquently expressive of the urgent need of convenient scholastic
institutions than the orators imagined, were delivered by representative men, and a resolution embodying the
determination of the residents to erect a substantial building and install Mr. J. Ham, B.A., as ...